Ancient Roots - Modern States
July 31st - August 4th, 2000
Resources

PEACE STUDIES

LINKS:

http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/humanrights/
Human Rights Center at U. C. Berkeley.  Their page links to:

a comprehensive listing of human rights resources (http://www.hrw.org/links.html) and

bibliographies on issues in human rights (http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/humanrights/bibliographies/)

http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/PubEd/
Globetrotter Public Education Page: Institute of International Studies explores a variety of topics through interviews with distinguished men and women. They include questions posed by high school students and a catalogue of interviews organized by topics such as the role of the United Nations, views on the craft of writing, the role of China in the world.

Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education  (SPICE)
http://spice.stanford.edu/
Catalogue, on-line lessons, current projects.

BOOKS:

Greg Francis, ed. Preventing Deadly Conflict: Toward a World Without War. Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE), 2000.

Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict. Preventing Deadly Conflict. New York:
Carnegie Corporation of New York, 1997.

Edward E. Evans-Pritchard. The Nuer: A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political
Institutes. Clarendon Press, 1968.

ON-LINE LESSONS:
Understanding the Kosovo/a Conflict: A lesson in Media Literacy, Grades 9 -12
This is a thoughtfully constructed lesson plan that focuses on critical skills for evaluating information available on international conflicts found in newspapers and on the Internet.
http://www2.lhric.org/war/lesson.html

http://tlc.ai.org/romanemp.htm
The ACCESS INDIANA Teaching & Learning Center guide to the Roman Empire

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook09.html
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1b.html#Pagan Late Antiquity
Medieval Sourcebook (primary sources) for the end of the Classical World.

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/09/13/timnwsnws02039.html
http://www.ngnews.com/news/2000/09/09132000/gladiator_3023.asp
Female gladiators?  Museum of London claims to have found the grave of a female gladiator.
 

BOOKS:

Alan K. Bowman, Edward Champlin and Andrew Lintott (eds). "Romanization and Resistance" in
The Cambridge Ancient History, second edition, vol 10. New York: Cambridge University Press,
1996. pp. 610-615.

Fergus Millar. The Roman Near East 31 BC - AD 337. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994. pp. ix-xiii, 1-7, 16-23.

Greg Woolf. Becoming Roman: The Origins of Provincial Civilization in Gaul.   New York:
Cambridge University Press, 1998. pp. ix-xii, 1-7, 16-23.

Amos Megged presentation

http://lanic.utexas.edu/
Latin American Network Information Center

http://www.humanities-interactive.org/splendors/timeline.htm
A concise timeline of Mexican history.

BOOKS:

Serge Gruzinski. The Conquest of Mexico: The Incorporation of Indian Societies into the
Colonial World, 16th-18th Centuries. Polity Press, 1993. Introduction: pp. 1-5; Chapter 2,
"Memories to Order": pp. 70-97.

http://www.ias.berkeley.edu/africa/FacultyInst/slctweblinks.html#Teaching
A page of links for teaching African Studies assembled by the Center for African Studies. I have included some of the most relevant links below.

http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/guide.html
Africa South of the Sahara: Selected Internet Resources - maintained by Karen Fung, Hoover Institute, Stanford
University

http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/AS.html
University of Pennsylvania African Studies Page with extensive links

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/Collections/Africana/
African and African American Collections at the UC Berkeley Library.

http://www.h-net.msu.edu/gateways/africa/
H-Africa: Part of H-Net is an interdisciplinary organization of scholars dedicated to developing the enormous
educational potential of the Internet and the World Wide Web. African Studies constitutes the largest sector on H-Net.

http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~cale/cs201/apartheid.hist.html
The history of Apartheid in South Africa.

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/africa/africasbook.html
A history of Africa by region.

http://www.cam.org/~emru/bhp/contents.html
Events, culture, kingdoms and people of Africa.

BOOKS:

African National Congress. ANA 1999 Manifesto. Marshalltown: ANC, 1999.

          African Government. the building has begun: Government's Report to the Nation '98.
          Durban: Universal Web Printers, 1998.

          "The African Renaissance, South Africa and the World." Speech by Deputy President Thabo
          Mbeki at the United Nations University.
          www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/mbeki/1998/sp980409.html.

          Misty K. Anthony Appiah's New York Times Book Review Critique of African Ceremonies.

          L. Bastian and Jane L. Parpart (ed). Great Ideas for Teaching About Africa. Boulder:
          Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 1999.

          Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher. African Ceremonies. Volumes 1 & 2. New York: Harry
          N. Abrams, Inc., 1999.

          Ariana de Rochefort-Reynolds. Reinventing Tradition in Post-Apartheid South Africa.
          April 2000. Unpublished.

          Caroline Hamilton. Terrific Majesty: The Powers of Shaka Zulu and the Limits of
          Historical Invention. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998.

          Margaret Jean Hay (ed). African Novels in the Classroom. Boulder: Lynne Rienner
          Publishers, Inc., 2000.

          Malegapuru William Makgoba (ed). African Renaissance. Cape Town: Mafube and
          Tafelberg Publishers, 1999.

          Mahmood Mamdani. Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late
          Colonialism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996.

          Shula Marks (ed). Not Either An Experimental Doll: The Separate Worlds of Three South
          African Women. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1987.

          Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa. Indaba, My Children: African Folktales. New York: Grove
          Press, 1964.

          The Reader's Digest. Illustrated History of South Africa. Cape Town: The Reader's Digest
          Association Ltd., 1994

          Leonard Thompson. A History of South Africa. Rev. ed. New Haven: Yale University Press,
          1995.

Useful sites for teachers (lesson plans, exercises for students, etc)

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/area/sarai/BibInfo.html
Has links to information on films, bibliographies of South Asia topics (literature, politics, history, subaltern studies), links to newspapers, etc.

http://www.mssc.edu/projectsouthasia/
An education resources site, which is currently under construction but should prove invaluable for educators and will have links to all sorts of education sites on India

http://www.curriculum.edu.au/accessasia/network/
Asia Ednet site - a guide to using internet for teaching Asia for K-12 teachers

http://www.execpc.com/~dboals/india.html#INDIA
A site designed to help k-12 teachers teach about Indian history.  Contains links to a multitude of history sites.

http://asnic.utexas.edu/asnic/outreach/layout.html
Center for South and South-East Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.  This is one of the best outreach resources for teachers in US - has information on all of the Center's books, videos, etc., along with ordering information.

http://www.virginia.edu/~soasia/
South Asia Teacher Resources links from University of Virginia South Asia Center.

http://webhead.com/WWWVL/India/india2.html
WWW Virtual Library for India - has lots of useful general links on culture, history, etc.
General Overview of Imperialism and the British Empire

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook34.html#Imperialism
Site of the Modern History Sourcebook on imperialism. Provides an overview of general theories of imperialism as well as links to primary documents (Kipling's "White Man's Burden" is here, as well as Mill's "On Colonies and Colonization, Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant," etc.), and excerpts from a variety of imperial advocates and opponents, even imperial anthems.

http://pages.britishlibrary.net/empirehist/history.htm
Provides a brief history of the British Empire.

http://www.indiaworld.co.in/open/stories/index.html
India World - a good Indian search engine

http://www.basas.homepage.com/basas2.html
Site of the British Association for South Asian Studies- excellent links to a whole range of sites on India, search engines, etc.

http://southasia.net/
South Asia Net - useful Indian search engine

http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/History/British/BrIndia.html
Manas site on Indian history  - excellent history site for with links; valuable for the British period.

http://www.historyofindia.com/home.html
History of India site - another excellent site on Indian history, well illustrated with links and a good overview of British period

http://ww.indiatime.com/history/history.htm
Indiatime site - high quality, many interesting historical links - covers regional history, religious, cultural, etc. as well as good coverage of the British  period.

http://www.ukans.edu/history/VL/middle_east/india.html
An excellent site by U of Kansas, with links to various subjects.  Their links to modern history actually their worst, although they have a good link to the independence movement.  This site is better for things like maps, links to Indian literature, etc.

http://www.bengalweb.com/hist/
The focus of this site is on history of Bengal, but it covers the 19th century fairly well and is well illustrated

http://theory.tifr.res.in/bombay/history/index.html
This site is similar to the one above, but focuses on the history of Bombay. Has some unusual links (the history of Indian railway, architectural history, etc.)

http://www.curtin.edu.au/curtin/dept/ssal/jsss/vol1/No2/p33-37/
This is a good, albeit advanced Mutiny site - a student essay that provides a good analysis of things like the racial and gender aspects of the Mutiny.

http://www.indiaemb.org.eg/section%202/sect%202%20eng/SUPPRESSION%20OF%20THE%2 0UPRISING.html
Site contains selections from primary texts, most of which condemn British barbarity in the aftermath of the Mutiny.

http://hkuhist2.hku.hk/firstyear/images/map14.jpg
This is a great map of the Indian Mutiny

http://www.historyofindia.com/hist_text/british.html
Good overview site on British India, with links to East India Company, Mutiny, etc.

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook34.html#India
Sites from the British Internet Modern History Sourcebook from Fordham University.  Excellent sites with nothing but links to primary documents, most from the nineteenth century (speeches by Rammohan Roy, Bentinck, Macaulay's minute on education, etc.).

http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/History/Asian/India/European_Domination_1750-1947/
An excellent site with many links to related subjects on empire and India, primary documents, etc.  Includes links to the East India Company's web site; excerpts from texts such as Elisa Greathed's Indian Mutiny letters; and  several (very nationalist) links to sites on the Mutiny.  Links to Greathed and the Rani of Jhansi make it a useful site for women's history.

http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum210/tml/IndiaTML/indiatml3.htm
An extremely  useful timeline site that covers the British period and has related links (to various aspects of culture, literature, important figures, etc).  Also has links to timelines for other periods of Indian history.

http://webhead.com/wwwvl/India/india211.html
This page contains links to a variety of Indian and Imperial literature.  The best parts of the page are the extensive links to Kipling, including the full text of Kim.

http://www.harappa.com/pict.html
Excellent site for illustrating Indian history, since it contains nothing but historical photographs and accompanying text.  It also contains things like  interactive maps.

http://www.snu.edu/syllabi/history/s97projects/india/
This is an excellent site on the impact of imperial rule in India - covers things like language, technology, economy, caste, and even cricket.

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1871britishrule.html
This is a great source from Dadabhai Naoroji containing his views on the benefits and detriments of British rule in India

http://www.khyber.demon.co.uk/history/naval_crusades/india2.htm
This site covers mostly the economic effects of British rule in India.

http://www.historyofindia.com/britrule.html
This is an excellent site on the British Raj post 1858 on the effects of colonialism on culture, the economy, politics, etc.   Illustrated with links to the Indian National Congress, nationalism, etc.

http://members.tripod.com/anantmithal/Itihaas/themes/BritishInjustice.html
A very reactionary site on the effects of British imperialism in India.  Not extremely reliable but useful for understanding some of the Indian perceptions of British rule in India, and of the continued effects of imperialism.

BOOKS:

Lahore: Sang-e-Meel Publications, 1998. pp. 97-125.

          P. J. Marshall. "Caste, tribe, or class? Social change in India and Africa under British Rule" in
        Empire in Retrospect. p. 377.

              -This is a very brief piece on caste in India, and provides an initial understanding of how
              caste was reinvented under British rule.

          Tapan Raychaudhuri. P.J. Marshall (ed). "British Rule in India: An Assessment" in Cambridge
          Illustrated History of the British Empire. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
          pp. 357-369.

              -This article provides a general overview of the effects of British rule in India. It briefly
              examines the impacts of British rule on things like the economy, society, customs, etc. It
              connects the past to the present and provides some understanding of the nature of
              contemporary India.

          Jenny Sharpe. "The Civilizing Mission Disfigured" in Allegories of Empire: The Figure of
          Woman in the Colonial Text. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993. pp. 57-82.

              -This article explores British reactions to the Indian Mutiny of 1857 (or Rebellion, as it is
              sometimes termed), which ended the period of East India Company Rule in India and replaced
              it with direct rule by the British crown. This piece provides an excellent overview of how the
              Mutiny completely changed British beliefs that they could and should make India "British in all
              but blood," and in some senses irreparably British and Indian perceptions of each other. By
              looking at some of the gender and racial implications of the Mutiny, this piece is an interesting
              way to examine the depth of the impact that the Mutiny had on post-Mutiny India.

          Mrinalini Sinha. "Reconfiguring Hierarchies: The Ilbert Bill controversy, 1883-84" in Colonial
          Masculinity: The 'Manly Englishman' and the Effeminate Bengali' in the late Nineteenth
          Century. New York: Manchester University Press, 1995. 18 pp.

          D.A. Washbrook. Andrew Porter (ed). "India 1818-1860: The Two Faces of Colonialism" in
          The Oxford History of the British Empire: The Nineteenth Century. New York: Oxford
          University Press, 1999.

http://www.cannylink.com/historyottoman.htm
A history of the Ottoman empire.

http://www.iit.edu/~akbabul/preface.html
Articles from "The New York Times" related to the Ottoman Empire and Turkey.

http://www.turkey.org/start.html
A site that links the Ottoman Empire to modern-day Turkey.

http://www.worldwar1.com/attur.htm
Pre-WWI Ottoman empire page.

BOOKS:

Halide Edib Adivar. Memoirs. (Out of print, but available in many libraries).

          Ivo Andric. The Bridge on the Drina. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1984.

          L. Carl Brown (ed). Imperial Legacy: Ottoman Imprint on the Balkans and the Middle
          East. Columbia University Press, 1997.

          Arthur Goldschmidt, Jr. A Concise History of the Middle East. Westview Press, 1999.
          "Firearms, Slaves and Empires" pp. 115-128, 131-132; "European Interest and Imperialism"
          pp. 133-142; "Westernizing Reform in the Nineteenth Century" pp. 143-156; "The Rise of
          Nationalism" pp. 157-158, 165-169, 171-172, "Modernizing Rulers in the Independent
          States" pp. 190-200, 212-213.

          Bernard Lewis. Emergence of Modern Turkey. Oxford University Press, 1986.

          Bernard Lewis. Istanbul and the Civilization of the Ottoman Empire. Oklahoma City:
          Oklahoma University Press, 1989.

          Irfan Orga. Portrait of a Turkish Family. (This title is no longer available from the publisher).

          Leslie Peirce. The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire.
          Oxford University Press, 1993.

          Donald Quataert. The Ottoman Empire, 1700-1922. Cambridge University Press, 2000.

          Maria Todorova. Imagining the Balkans. Oxford University Press, 1997.

          Erik J. Zurcher. Turkey: A Modern History. St. Martin's/ I.B. Taurus, 1998.

http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/is.html
The World Factbook for Israel.

http://www.israel.org/mfa/home.asp
Israel's ministry of foreign affairs page.

http://www.focusmm.com.au/israel/is_anamn.htm
History of Israel and its attractions.

BOOKS:

Don Peretz. The Arab-Israel Dispute. Chronology. Facts On File, Inc. 1996. 4 pp.

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/sipa/REGIONAL/ECE/teachers.html
These curriculum units are from the Center for East European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at Columbia University.

http://www.uiuc.edu/unit/reec/electionlinks.htm
Links to information on the Russian political system and elections.

http://www.uiuc.edu/unit/reec/bibliography.htm
Bibliography on Russia, the soviet Union, and the Succssor States (organized by k-4, 5-8, 9-12)

http://europa.eu.int/index-en.htm
A website for news and information of institutions and EU issues.

http://europa.eu.int/index-en.htm
The European Union homepage with maps and information about the EU.

BOOKS:

          "Letter from Europe," The New Yorker. July, 1992. pp. 63-73.

          William Wallace. The Transformation of Western Europe. Royal Institute of International
          Affairs: London, 1990. "Europe, Which Europe?" pp. 7-34.

http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/PubEd/research/china.html
Globetrotter Research Galleries: Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley
This is an excellent collection of interviews collected by the Institute of International Studies as part of their "Conversations with History." A good way to explore topics like China/U.S. Relations and human rights through primary sources.

http://members.aol.com/TeacherNet/AncientChina.html
Ancient China to Modern: page for research on history and current news.

http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~felsing/cstuff/cmaps.html
A great resource for all types of maps of China, including historical maps.

http://www.china-embassy.org/China/China.htm
A reference site sponsored by the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the United States.

http://www.askasia.org/
The Asia Society's teachers' page.

http://www.aasianst.org/eaa-toc.htm
An invaluable resource that helps bring Asia into the classroom.

http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson099.shtml
Classroom activities for elementary-level students, along with pertinent links to sites that will facilitate and expand these activities.  There are links to sites that provide the basic facts about China-geography, history, arts-and its culture.

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/eastasia/eastasiasbook.html
Internet East Asian Sourcebook.

BOOKS:

Patricia Ebrey. Cambridge History: China. Cambridge University Press, 1996. Preface and
Epilogue, map and timeline.

Map from Spotlight on China: Traditions Old and New. Hazel Sara Greenberg (ed). The
American Forum for Global Education, 1997.